Top 34 Quotes by August Wilson

About August Wilson

These are some quotes by American author August Wilson Playwright, who lived between April 27, 1945 and October 2, 2005.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

August Wilson

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

August Wilson

I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.

August Wilson

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

August Wilson

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

August Wilson

In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room with sixteen playwrights. I remember looking around and thinking that since I was sitting there, I must be a playwright, too.

August Wilson

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

August Wilson

I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

August Wilson

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

August Wilson

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

August Wilson

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